Re: Coupla Distractions...

On Mar 20, 9:39 am, Dr.Sm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

2. I think we need a term for ourselves - Chronic Pain "Patients" and
"Sufferers" may be accurate, but they seem too close to "Vctim" and
IMHO we need a term of empowerment.  "Painees/Painies"? Too trite?
Yeah, one looks like "panties" and they both sound like pains in the
patoot...

I guess I should have made myself clearer - sorry.
The "political" terms may be fine for in-house; I was thinking more of
something we could refer to ourselves as to the outside world - to the
"normies" - without having to explain (at first meeting/exposure,
anyway) all the political BS and stigmas that go along with being in
CP. I'm seeing (in my mind) myself standing up in front of a room
full of people giving a presentation on chronic pain to a mixed group
(us & normies), and after the first 5 minutes, it gets a bit
cumbersome to keep referring to us as "sufferers" or "patients".

"Owies"? "Ouchies"? Time to pull out the dinosaur book...

Oh, the pain... THE PAIN...
.

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